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Old 07-29-2008, 11:14 AM   #851
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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan View Post
Well a guy like Halladay has strikeout stuff, his MO is to throw stuff that hitters think they can hit, but really can't hit effectively to keep his pitch counts down so he can pitch late into the game every time out. Burnett still tends to end up having 110 pitches thrown in the 6th or 7th inning because of the number of strikeouts. The average strikeout is probably at least a 5 pitch at bat, and Halladay tends to be a guy who's thrown 100 pitches after facing 30 hitters.
Agreed. Halladay is so freaking good its silly. He's gonna throw three strikes in the first four pitches of every at-bat - the batters know strikes are coming, they just can't do anything with them.
Used to be he'd pitch to weak-contact, but this year he's getting a combo of weak-contact and strikeouts while keeping his pitch count very low.

Silly-good.

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